UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NBC will launch NBC Kids, a new Saturday morning programming block designed specifically to address the developmental needs of preschool-aged

GEORDIE duo Ant and Dec, pictured, have bought the rights to the children's TV shows that made them famous. The pair have snapped up the rights to all 344 episodes of Byker Grove, the BBC drama that catapulted them to stardom as PJ and Duncan in the 1990s.

BROADCASTERS are feeding younger viewers a diet of cartoons and US imports and spending less cash on new, British-made programmes, a major review of children's TV has found.

By JAMES VANCE TV World Staff Writer Goodbye, 2005. And goodbye to the Kids WB (channel 19, cable channel 12) weekday afternoon lineup, whose passing marks the end of something more than just watching Pokemon after school.

By STEPHEN GRAHAM KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The famous puppets of "Sesame Street" will help Afghanistan's children overcome their country's traumatic past, starring in videos to be shown in schools recovering from Taliban rule and decades of war.The first of 400 education kits, with specially adapted programs featuring Big Bird and other characters, have been given to Afghan authorities, officials said."We need our children to have their eyes and their minds opened to new ideas," said Sekander Giyam, an adviser to the Afghan minister of education.The kits also will help Afghan teachers "move into a new century of education," Giyam said in a statement released late Thursday.Each kit contains 10 20-minute episodes made from material developed for Alam Simsim, an Egyptian adaptation of Sesame Street funded by the U.S.